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<br /> <br />June 22, 2007 <br /> <br />Mr. Rick Brown <br />Interstate Water Management Development Section <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1580 Logan Street, Suite 1600 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> <br />Subject: Water Supply Reserve Account 2007 Grant Application for Direct Determination <br />of Crop Evapotranspiration in the Arkansas Valley with a Weighing Lysimeter <br /> <br />Dear Rick: <br /> <br />Enclosed is a grant application from the Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station. The <br />grant application is for $50,000 for a weighing lysimeter for direct detennination of crop <br />evapotranspiration in the Arkansas Valley. This grant application was considered at the March 14,2007, <br />Roundtable meeting and again at the June 13, 2007 meeting. It was also reviewed by our Needs <br />Assessment Committee and has received through both the Committee process and our Roundtable, a <br />thorough review and full discussion at a publicly-noticed meeting with a 75 percent quorum present. It <br />was approved with the understanding that if approved by CWCB, it would be funded out of our Basin <br />account. There was a dissenting opinion, and attached is that opinion submitted by Dan Henrichs. <br /> <br />In closing, if I can be of any assistance to you and your staff or the Water Conservation Board in their <br />evaluation and consideration, please do not hesitate to contact me at: 719.584.0221 or <br />aharnel@pueblowater.org. (I will be out of the office from June 25 through July 10.) Also, you may <br />contact Jay Winner (Chair of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable Needs Assessment Committee and Vice- <br />Chair of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable) at 719.254.5115. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br />/-"--. \ <br />I /) 1 (1 I \ fn <br />"- y'~ \.._- . '~ ~~ <br /> <br />Alan C. Hamel <br />Chair <br /> <br />enc <br />Ikm <br />c: Lee Sommers <br />Jay Winner <br />Gary Barber <br />Jonathon Fox <br />Eric Hecox <br />Dan Hemichs <br />Jens Danielson <br />